You forget that bullets aren’t illuminated unless they’re tracer rounds. If you watch an IRL tracer round at night it looks a lot like the lasers from turbo laser cannons.
I’m not arguing against the falcon getting destroyed I’m just saying the turbo lasers on a starship are moving much faster than it seems simply because they’re illuminated.
Bullets are small and don’t give off any light. Those are pretty much the only reason you can’t see them moving. It’s not instant you just can’t see it.
I was specifically thinking about tracers when I was saying that turbo lasers seem slower than bullets. Look at this footage and say that it seems slower than turbo lasers:
Compare that to the ship-to-ship “turbo lasers” from the clip I shared, it seems very similar. It’s hard to compare because you’d need to look at things of the same scale from the same distance, but it seems comparable to me.
The thing about blaster bolts in the OT is that they usually are on screen for roughly the same number of frames, no matter the shot. So in close in fights, they can be pretty slow, for long shots, especially the chase of the Tantive IV, they are incredibly fast.
You forget that bullets aren’t illuminated unless they’re tracer rounds. If you watch an IRL tracer round at night it looks a lot like the lasers from turbo laser cannons.
I’m not arguing against the falcon getting destroyed I’m just saying the turbo lasers on a starship are moving much faster than it seems simply because they’re illuminated.
Bullets are small and don’t give off any light. Those are pretty much the only reason you can’t see them moving. It’s not instant you just can’t see it.
I was specifically thinking about tracers when I was saying that turbo lasers seem slower than bullets. Look at this footage and say that it seems slower than turbo lasers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LZuNUqZ4TE
Compare that to the ship-to-ship “turbo lasers” from the clip I shared, it seems very similar. It’s hard to compare because you’d need to look at things of the same scale from the same distance, but it seems comparable to me.
The thing about blaster bolts in the OT is that they usually are on screen for roughly the same number of frames, no matter the shot. So in close in fights, they can be pretty slow, for long shots, especially the chase of the Tantive IV, they are incredibly fast.